RE: [Cz-L] 2 siblings reunited after being separated in Holocaust

This article appeared in today's (9/19) Detroit Free Press. My grandfather
z"l is Samuel Glasberg I wonder if there is a connection.?

Jerry Lapides, Ph.D.
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 2 siblings reunited after being separated in Holocaust

Hilda Shlick (75) thought her brother, Simon Glasberg (83), perished in
Holocaust because she never managed to locate him for last six decades. He
himself came to Israel searching for her, but to no avail. With help of Yad
Vashem's computerized name database, their grandchildren discovered the
truth – some of the family lives in Israel, and some in Canada. The
emotional meeting finally materializes
Miri Chason

After 65 years, in which each of them thought their sibling had perished in
the Holocaust, and after they searched for each other in Israel and abroad,
Hilda Shelik (75) and her brother Simon Glasberg (83) met Monday. With the
help of Yad Vashem's website, the two siblings' grandchildren discovered
that family members had indeed survived the Holocaust, even though they had
previously been led to believe otherwise.

 "I am happy today. All the years that passed I didn't believe my family
survived. Even when my grandchildren told me they had survived, I didn't
believe it. Today I am happy," said Hilda.

 Their older brother, Karol Weiner, thought that Hilda perished in the
Holocaust, and therefore submit a Page of Testimony to Yad Vashem in 1999 in
Hilda's name stating such. About a month and a half ago, her grandchildren
found the Page of Testimony written by Hilda's brother. Karol passed away
the same year, without knowing that thanks to him, his siblings found Hilda
in Israel.

The emotional siblings at Yad Vashem (Photo: Uriel Hershko)

Like many other Jewish families, the family's story took a sharp turn in
1941 when the Nazis invaded North Bukovina. The family, living in
Chernowitz, Romania, was split up. Hilda escaped along with her older sister
Bertha and two nieces to Uzbekistan, and the rest of the family stayed in
Romania.

All her life, Hilda mistakenly thought that her family members who remained
in Romania were murdered in the Holocaust. She married Elye Itshok Shlick
and they had two children, Zali and Hertha. Only in 1998 Hilda immigrated to
Israel, following her son's family, who immigrated in 1991.

In a family conversation a few months ago, Hilda's grandchildren, Benny and
David Shlik, found out that their grandmother's maiden name was Glasberg.
With this new information, they performed a search in Yad Vashem's Central
Database of Shoah Victims' Names in order to find more details about their
grandmother's families. This is how they came across the Page of Testimony
written by her brother.
 

'They can't possibly be alive'

David Shlik told: "I continued my search in the internet site of Montreal's
burial services, and world forums and organizations of Chernowitz natives. I
ultimately got to Karol's son, who told me that all of my grandmother's
family survived and that two of her brothers are living in Canada. Within a
month and a half we organized a meeting. Simon will even stay with us for
Rosh Hashana."

According to him, "The moment we understood what was happening, we started
gradually explaining to Grandma that there is this thing called relative
searching and that it was possible to find her family members. She told me
that it couldn't possibly be that any of them are alive, because she already
looked for them many years ago. A few days later we told her that two of her
brothers are in Canada."

 
During the family reunion, it turned out that Hilda's parents lived long
lives until the ages of 92 and 98, and passed away in the 80s in Montreal.
Hilda's brother, Karol Weiner, passed away in Montreal in 1999. Another
brother, Eddie Glasberg, passed away two years ago in Montreal. Her brother
Mark Glasberg currently lives in Canada, but his health is in poor
condition. Hilda has already expressed her desire to visit him. Mark's son,
Irwin, lives with his family in Israel. Hilda's sister Bertha died in 1970,
and the fate of another sister, Pepi, is still unknown.

 
Mark and Simon immigrated to Israel right after the Holocaust, fought in the
War of Independence, and immigrated to Canada in the 1950s. "The first day
we were able to come to Israel, we got on a shaky boat and arrived here,"
Simon recalled with teary eyes. "I came to search for my sisters. They told
us that we are all coming to Israel, but I didn't find her then."

Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev calls families to gather around the table
on Rosh Hashana and to make sure that family member murdered in the
Holocaust have been memorialized in the Yad Vashem's name database, and to
fill out a Page of Testimony on the victims whose names still aren't in the
database.

The name database was launched in November 2004, with 3.1 million names from
the Pages of Testimony, archives lists, and local projects throughout the
world in which names of those murdered in the Holocaust were collected.
Until now, over 10 million people have visited the site from over 200
countries.
 
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3305554,00.html

Shana Tova,

Marc Goldberger
Received on 2006-09-19 18:36:54